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The Tao Of Travel
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Author : Paul Theroux
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2011-05-19
The Tao Of Travel written by Paul Theroux and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-19 with Travel categories.
The acclaimed author explores the greatest travel writing by literary adventurers from Freya Stark and James Baldwin to Nabokov and Hemmingway. Paul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe with this meditative journey through the books that shaped him as a reader and traveler. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, The Tao of Travel enumerates “The Contents of Some Travelers’ Bags” and exposes “Writers Who Wrote about Places They Never Visited”; tracks extreme journeys in “Travel as an Ordeal” and highlights some of “Travelers’ Favorite Places.” Excerpts from the best of Theroux’s own work are interspersed with selections from travelers both familiar and unexpected, including J.R.R. Tolkien, Samuel Johnson, Eudora Welty, Evelyn Waugh, Isak Dinesen, Charles Dickens, Henry David Thoreau, Pico Iyer, Mark Twain, Anton Chekhov, Bruce Chatwin, John McPhee, Peter Matthiessen, Graham Greene, Paul Bowles, and many more.
The Tao Of Travel
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Author : Paul Theroux
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2011-05-26
The Tao Of Travel written by Paul Theroux and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-26 with Travel categories.
Paul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped him, as a reader and a traveller. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, The Tao of Travel enumerates 'The Contents of Some Travellers' Bags' and exposes 'Writers Who Wrote About Places They Never Visited'; tracks extreme journeys in 'Travel As An Ordeal' and highlights some of 'Travellers' Favourite Places'. Excerpts from the best of Theroux's own work are interspersed with selections from travellers both familiar and unexpected, including Vladimir Nabokov, Henry David Thoreau, Graham Greene, Ernest Hemingway and more. The Tao of Travel is a unique tribute to the pleasures and pains of travel in its golden age.
The Tao Of Travel
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Author : Paul Theroux
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
Release Date : 2011
The Tao Of Travel written by Paul Theroux and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Travel categories.
A collection of writings from Paul Theroux's fifty years of travel. Included are writings from other travelers such as Charles Dickens, Eudora Welty, Anton Chekhov, Ernest Hemingway and many others.
The Tao Of Travel
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Author : Pamela Metz
language : en
Publisher: Humanics Publishing Group
Release Date : 2003-06
The Tao Of Travel written by Pamela Metz and has been published by Humanics Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06 with categories.
Pamela Metz has written The Tao of Travel as a book for both inner and outer journeys. The book follows the structure and honors the spirit of the classic Tao Te Ching attributed to the Chinese sage, Lao Tzu. The author has created this book for those readers who travel in the physical world as well as those whose travels occur in the dream time of the mind. Each of the short 81 chapters of The Tao of Travel is an opportunity to reflect on the journey of life. There are images of being a stranger, leaving home, missing home, and returning home. Other images of delays, wandering, finding a guide, losing the way, and discovering wisdom are based in reality, in the spiritual realm, and in the metaphorical aspects of traveling. When one lives life as a journey, there are many beginnings and endings. When one reads The Tao of Travel, readers discover that beginnings offer insight and endings offer an opportunity for beginning again. This book can be carried on journeys for reflection, meditation and simple enjoyment of the traveling experience. It can also remain at home for the returning traveler to remember and reflect upon the highlights of the last journey while preparing for the excitement and anticipation of the next traveling experience.
The Great Railway Bazaar
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Author : Paul Theroux
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2011-09-01
The Great Railway Bazaar written by Paul Theroux and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-01 with Travel categories.
The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's classic and much-loved homage to train travel. The Orient Express; The Khyber Pass Local; the Delhi Mail from Jaipur; the Golden Arrow of Kuala; the Trans-Siberian Express; these are just some of the trains steaming through Paul Theroux's epic rail journey from London across Europe through India and Asia. This was a trip of discovery made in the mid-seventies, a time before the West had embraced the places, peoples, food, faiths and cultures of the East. For us now, as much as for Theroux then, to visit the lands of The Great Railway Bazaar is an encounter with all that is truly foreign and exotic - and with what we have since lost. Praise for Paul Theroux: 'Theroux's work remains the standard by which other travel writing must be judged' Observer 'One needs energy to keep up with the extraordinary, productive restlessness of Paul Theroux ... [He is] the most gifted, most prodigal writer of his generation'Jonathan Raban 'Always a terrific teller of tales and conjurer of exotic locales, he writes lean prose that lopes along at a compelling pace'Sunday Times Paul Theroux's books include Dark Star Safari, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Riding the Iron Rooster, The Great Railway Bazaar, The Elephanta Suite, A Dead Hand, The Tao of Travel and The Lower River. The Mosquito Coast and Dr Slaughter have both been made into successful films. Paul Theroux divides his time between Cape Cod and the Hawaiian islands.
Under The Wave At Waimea
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Author : Paul Theroux
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Release Date : 2021
Under The Wave At Waimea written by Paul Theroux and has been published by Houghton Mifflin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Fiction categories.
From legendary writer Paul Theroux comes an atmospheric novel following a big-wave surfer as he confronts aging, privilege, mortality, and whose lives we choose to remember.
Fresh Air Fiend
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Author : Paul Theroux
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2011-08-04
Fresh Air Fiend written by Paul Theroux and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-04 with Travel categories.
In this collection of Theroux's shorter travel writings, he writes of sweatshops in Dongguan, massage parlours in Kowloon, jellyfish in Palau and bomb craters on Chrsitmas Island. Whether visiting the King of the Lozis at a bend in the Zambezi river or crossing the United States in a railway car of unsurpassable luxury, relating his experiments with biblical dieting, or detailing the illneses and diseases suffered in half a lifetime of travel, Paul Theroux, the fresh-air fiend himself, is always an entertaining and honest guide. Full of startling encounters and memorable scenes, fascinating and sometimes bizarre locations, and enlightening musings on themes as various as sexual attraction and the point of travel writing itself, this extensive collection of his shorter pieces is a rich and remarkable book from a superb writer. 'Theroux remains the standard by which other travel writing must be judged' Observer Paul Therouxhas written many works of fiction and travel writing, including the modern classic The Great Railway, Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, My Secret History and The Mosquito Coasts. Paul Theroux divides his time between Cape Cod and the Hawaiian islands.
The Tao Of Bowie
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Author : Mark Edwards
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Release Date : 2021-01-07
The Tao Of Bowie written by Mark Edwards and has been published by Atlantic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-07 with Self-Help categories.
What would David Bowie do? When life gets tough, who can we turn to for help? Who will help us find happiness, meaning and purpose? The Tao of Bowie suggests that we turn to David Bowie for guidance - and use his amazing journey through life as a map to help us navigate our own. Buddhism was central to David Bowie's life, but he was a wide-ranging thinker who also drew meaning from other sources including Jungian psychology, Nietzschean philosophy and Gnosticism. The Tao of Bowie condenses these concepts - the ideas that inspired and supported Bowie throughout his life and career - into ten powerful lessons, each with a series of exercises, meditations and techniques to encourage readers to apply these learnings to their own lives. The Tao of Bowie will help readers understand who they really are, clarify their purpose in life, manage their emotions and cope with setbacks and change. This fresh approach to the search for spirituality and happiness unites the perennial human quest for answers with the extraordinary mind and unique career of one of the most important cultural figures of the past half-century.
The Art Of Travel
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Author : Alain de Botton
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2003-05-29
The Art Of Travel written by Alain de Botton and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05-29 with Philosophy categories.
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER 'Honest, funny and dripping with witty aphorisms. Extremely entertaining and enlightening [...] all the way to journey's end' Herald One of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy, Religion for Atheists and The School of Life, presents a travel guide with a difference - an exploration of why we travel, and what we learn along the way... Few activities seem to promise as much happiness as going travelling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on where to travel to, we seldom ask why we go and how we might become more fulfilled by doing so. With the help of a selection of writers, artists and thinkers - including Flaubert, Edward Hopper, Wordsworth and Van Gogh - Alain de Botton provides invaluable insights into everything from holiday romance to hotel minibars, airports to sightseeing. The perfect antidote to those guides that tell us what to do when we get there, The Art of Travel tries to explain why we really went in the first place - and helpfully suggest how we might be happier on our journeys. 'Delightful, profound, entertaining. I doubt if de Botton has written a dull sentence in his life' Jan Morris 'An elegant and subtle work, unlike any other. Beguiling' Colin Thubron, The Times
The Myth Of Wu Tao Tzu
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Author : Sven Lindqvist
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2012-08-02
The Myth Of Wu Tao Tzu written by Sven Lindqvist and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'During the Tang dynasty, the Chinese artist Wu Tao-tzu was one day standing looking at a mural he had just completed. Suddenly, he clapped his hands and the temple gate opened. He went into his work and the gates closed behind him.' Thus begins Sven Lindqvist's profound meditation on art and its relationship with life, first published in 1967, and a classic in his home country - it has never been out of print. As a young man, Sven Lindqvist was fascinated by the myth of Wu Tao-tzu, and by the possibility of entering a work of art and making it a way of life. He was drawn to artists and writers who shared this vision, especially Hermann Hesse, in his novel Glass Bead Game. Partly inspired by Hesse's work, Lindqvist lived in China for two years, learning classical calligraphy from a master teacher. There he was drawn deeper into the idea of a life of artistic perfectionism and retreat from the world. But when he left China for India and then Afghanistan, and saw the grotesque effects of poverty and extreme inequality, Lindqvist suffered a crisis of confidence and started to question his ideas about complete immersion in art at the expense of a proper engagement with life. The Myth of Wu Tao-tzu takes us on a fascinating journey through a young man's moral awakening and his grappling with profound questions of aesthetics. It contains the bracing moral anger, and poetic, intensely atmospheric travel writing Lindqvist's readers have come to love.